Condensed error logs from the leak+unit testing tinderboxes -> analysis needed

Chris Cooper <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:35:12 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.performance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
We've had tinderboxes setup for a while now (~3 months) that create 
debug builds and then run the full suite of unit tests on them with leak 
and bloat logging enabled. We currently have a CentOS and MacOSX box 
running in this config, with 2 Windows machines waiting on increasing 
logging capacity. These machines (qm-leak-centos5-01 and 
qm-leak-macosx-01) are currently reporting to the MozillaTest tinderbox 
tree:

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=MozillaTest

There was a great clamor in the Fall of 2007 to get these machines 
setup, but no one seems to have looked at them since, or at least I 
haven't received any feedback about them. I figure either:

a) no one has had time to look,
b) the data they are providing is no good, or
c) the need has gone away.

On the off-chance that it's option a), I went through a day's worth of 
tinderbox logs from each platform about a week ago and parsed out the 
relevant error message to make it more manageable for someone to glance 
at. This more compact analysis is here:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:ChrisCooper:UnittestingLeakAnalysis

If someone with more knowledge about the unit tests can have a quick 
look at the failures, it would be appreciated. I'd love to knock out any 
spurious failures and have the data be more meaningful, and maybe even 
have people start looking at the leak/bloat data from these boxes too.

cheers,
--
coop